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Pro-shooting MP in trouble over expenses claims

11 Jan 2016 – An MP is under investigation by Parliament’s expenses watchdog after claiming more than a quarter of a million pounds in the last financial year.

Jim Shannon, Democratic Unionist Party MP for Strangford, Northern Ireland, is under the spotlight of the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (IPSO) for claiming £264,500 in mileage and subsistence allowances last year, according to political blog Guido Fawkes.

While most of Shannon’s questions were ignored – some on the orders of secretive police lobbying outfit NABIS – it won’t hurt those in power at the police and the Home Office to have this particular thorn removed from their sides.